Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 231 292
Rank change year-on-year -77 +61 -72
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 510 565 923
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.37% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.48% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 217 310 523
10th Percentile £42,464 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,510 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,970 £105,500 £114,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,523 38,250 80,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.56% 92.93% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39,734 22,522 59,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.26%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 468 £67,500 -3.57% 230
London +35 282 £85,000 +13.33% 119
Work from Home +43 243 £74,500 +14.62% 104
UK excluding London -162 175 £63,076 -2.96% 139
North of England -52 62 £75,000 -6.25% 33
North West -13 38 £85,000 +6.12% 12
Midlands -54 34 £58,750 -6.00% 26
South East -130 30 £52,500 -19.23% 46
West Midlands -26 26 £57,500 -8.00% 12
East of England -11 25 £61,300 -5.69% 20
Yorkshire -51 21 £63,076 +94.08% 17
South West -82 17 £62,500 +4.17% 4
East Midlands -53 8 £116,250 +121.43% 14
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 3
Scotland -31 4 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East -31 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -24 2 £72,251 +20.71% 3

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 17 (3.33%) Confluence
3 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) CICS
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (6.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.59%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.92%) Workfront
2 6 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.31%) AWS
2 63 (12.35%) SaaS
3 49 (9.61%) Azure
4 34 (6.67%) iPaaS
5 20 (3.92%) GitHub
6 19 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.73%) Pulumi
7 16 (3.14%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (2.75%) GCP
9 12 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.76%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.57%) Asana
12 8 (1.57%) H2O.ai
12 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.37%) Figma
14 5 (0.98%) PaaS
14 5 (0.98%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.78%) Google Analytics
15 4 (0.78%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.57%) Broadband
2 21 (4.12%) HTTP
3 9 (1.76%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.76%) WAN
4 6 (1.18%) LAN
4 6 (1.18%) RTP
5 4 (0.78%) NGN
6 3 (0.59%) Multicast
6 3 (0.59%) Network Security
6 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.59%) Wireless
7 2 (0.39%) Firewall
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.63%) Metadata
2 20 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.92%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.33%) Power BI
4 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.98%) Tableau
6 4 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) DB2
9 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (5.69%) JIRA
2 19 (3.73%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 185 (36.27%) Finance
2 166 (32.55%) Social Skills
3 152 (29.80%) Marketing
4 89 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (15.88%) Banking
6 66 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (11.18%) Retail
8 56 (10.98%) Law
9 45 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (6.67%) Legal
12 29 (5.69%) Back Office
13 28 (5.49%) Public Sector
14 27 (5.29%) Financial Institution
15 22 (4.31%) Manufacturing
16 19 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (2.94%) Digital Economy
18 13 (2.55%) Italian Language
18 13 (2.55%) Retail Banking
19 12 (2.35%) German Language
Job Titles
1 144 (28.24%) Product Manager
2 83 (16.27%) Senior
3 70 (13.73%) Lead
4 56 (10.98%) Product Owner
5 42 (8.24%) Senior Manager
6 35 (6.86%) Senior Product Manager
7 23 (4.51%) Developer
8 22 (4.31%) Development Engineer
8 22 (4.31%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.12%) Software Development Engineer
10 20 (3.92%) Product Lead
11 19 (3.73%) Consultant
12 16 (3.14%) Senior Development Engineer
12 16 (3.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 16 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.94%) Digital Product Manager
14 13 (2.55%) Business Consultant
14 13 (2.55%) Business Development Consultant
14 13 (2.55%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.71%) REST
2 19 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.57%) Keras
3 8 (1.57%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
4 5 (0.98%) YAML
5 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.39%) .NET
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) HTML
6 2 (0.39%) Spring
6 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) EDI
7 1 (0.20%) JSON
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) SOAP
7 1 (0.20%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) XMPP
7 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 135 (26.47%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.02%) Social Media
3 36 (7.06%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (6.86%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (6.47%) Cloud Native
6 27 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (4.90%) Management Information System
7 25 (4.90%) Onboarding
8 22 (4.31%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.57%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.57%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.37%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.37%) Podcast
11 7 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.18%) IoT
12 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.51%) Linux
2 19 (3.73%) Unix
3 6 (1.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (59.22%) Roadmaps
2 240 (47.06%) Agile
3 149 (29.22%) Product Roadmap
4 111 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (20.98%) Product Vision
7 105 (20.59%) AI
8 101 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (19.22%) Mentoring
10 97 (19.02%) Decision-Making
11 94 (18.43%) Product Strategy
12 87 (17.06%) User Stories
13 74 (14.51%) User Experience
14 70 (13.73%) Analytics
15 68 (13.33%) Customer Experience
16 67 (13.14%) Product Backlog
17 63 (12.35%) Product Requirements
18 61 (11.96%) DevOps
19 59 (11.57%) Business Development
19 59 (11.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.82%) Java
2 36 (7.06%) Python
3 25 (4.90%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.92%) Go
5 19 (3.73%) Bash
6 16 (3.14%) SQL
7 6 (1.18%) Bicep
8 5 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.59%) R
10 2 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.39%) COBOL
10 2 (0.39%) JCL
10 2 (0.39%) PHP
10 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (17.25%) Degree
2 27 (5.29%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.18%) HNC
9 5 (0.98%) MBA
10 4 (0.78%) CISSP
11 3 (0.59%) CCNA
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.59%) HND
11 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.59%) PMP
12 2 (0.39%) ACCA
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CISM
12 2 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.10%) QA
2 10 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.37%) GDPR
5 6 (1.18%) NCSC
5 6 (1.18%) PMO
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.78%) SLA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) PERC
9 2 (0.39%) COREP
9 2 (0.39%) FINREP
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (6.47%) Terraform
2 23 (4.51%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.73%) Ansible
3 19 (3.73%) Argo
3 19 (3.73%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.43%) Adobe
3 35 (6.86%) Google
4 9 (1.76%) Oracle
4 9 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.57%) Databricks
5 8 (1.57%) Dell
5 8 (1.57%) NVIDIA
6 5 (0.98%) Cisco
6 5 (0.98%) Foundry
7 4 (0.78%) Facebook
7 4 (0.78%) Toshiba
7 4 (0.78%) YouTube
8 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.59%) CQG
8 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.59%) Patsystems
8 3 (0.59%) Reuters
8 3 (0.59%) Tenable